Champion's Tunic

First appearance

Found

Use

Effective against

"In ancient Hyrule, this garment could only be worn by one who had earned the respect of the royal family. Equipping it will reveal an enemy's life gauge."

— In-game description

The Champion's Tunic is an item from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It is a body armor unveiling enemies' life gauge. Link receives the tunic from Impa after regaining his first memory from "Captured Memories". This tunic was surely the one worn by Link as the HylianChampion one hundred years prior, with its specific blue color and Hylian embroideries. It has the unique ability fully show an enemies' life gauge including their HP. While Link can normally see an enemies health meter only the Champion's Tunic allows Link to see an enemies HP gauge which shows the actually number of hit points (HP) that enemy has and how much HP it has left.

As Link obtains the Champion's Tunic early in the game's story and its ability to reveal enemy HP, the Champion's Tunic is featured prominently in Breath of the Wild promotional material, as the Breath of the WildHero's Clothes armor set (Cap of the Wild, Tunic of the Wild, and Trousers of the Wild) is obtained pretty late in the game. The Champion's Tunic is not part of any armor set and the leg armor Link is seen wearing with it in artwork and promotional material are a simple pair of Hylian Trousers. Additionally, Link is shown in one promotional image wearing a Hylian Hood with his Champion's Tunic and Hylian Trousers while riding a ordinary Horse. The Champion's Tunic and Hylian Trousers are worn by Link in his Recovered Memories as the Tunic represents his status as the Hylian Champion. However after he was injured his clothes were removed by Purah, Impa, and Robbie before he was placed inside the Shrine of Resurrection. Impa kept Link's Champion's Tunic during which time she apparently repaired it and guarded it for the next hundred years as she waited for Link to awaken giving it to him after he managed to recall at least one of his memories of Princess Zelda. It is unclear what happened to his Hylian Trousers he wore before and during the Great Calamity, though he can acquire a pair from a chest in the ruins in the Temple of Time's complex or purchase them from the Armor Shops Enchanted or Ventest Clothing Boutique. Despite not being part of an armor set, once fully upgraded it has a armor strength of 32, making it the single strongest piece of armor as all other high tier fully upgraded armor pieces such as the Amber Earrings, Ancient Helm, Ancient Cuirass, Ancient Greaves, Diamond Circlet, Soldier's Helm, Soldier's Armor, and Soldier's Greaves all have an armor strength of 28 (though the Ancient and Soldier sets have the advantage of being part of sets as each armor piece adds its armor strength to Link's armor defense stat). As it is not part of a set, it allows Link to wear leg and head armor with it allowing Link to wear leg and head armor that grant resistances and other beneficial effects with it. Additionally the fully upgraded Champion's Tunic can be worn with upgraded leg and head armor with 28 armor strength which gives Link a total of 88 points of armor. It is also ideal for detecting Treasure Octoroks camouflaging themselves as buried Treasure Chests as it will show their 8/8 hit points even while camouflaged making them easy to spot and avoid or Link can attack it with an arrow which will cause the Treasure Octorok to reveal itself.

The tunic cannot be sold, possibly due to the importance to the Champion.